|
Showing 1 - 25 of
40 matches in All Departments
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
|
Tyranny and Music (Hardcover)
Joseph E. Morgan, Gregory N. Reish; Contributions by Beau Bothwell, Daniel Guberman, Mei Han, …
|
R2,771
Discovery Miles 27 710
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
Tyranny and Music is an edited collection of essays that explore
how musical artists respond to cruel or oppressive governments and
ruling regimes. Its primary strength and unique quality lies in its
diversity, presenting a postmodern collage of scholarship that
reaches across the divides of classical, popular and traditional
musics just as it connects musical resistance of the past with the
present and the near (Western) with the far (non-Western).
Contemporary topics include Chosan's analysis of blood diamonds in
the Sierra Leonean Civil War, and collective memory in the Persian
Gulf War songs. Historical topics include the image of John Wilkes
Booth in the popular imagination, censorship in the Soviet Union,
Victor Ullman's song setting at Terezin, artistic restrictions in
Maoist China, anti-inquisition propaganda in the outbreak of the
Dutch revolt, Revolutionary Era Anthems in the United States and
much more. These essays, while remarkable in their scholarly
erudition, also provide intimate glimpses of the resiliency of the
individual artist. From Cherine Amr's Heavy Metal resistance to the
Muslim Brotherhood to Hanns Eisler's battle with the United States
House on Un-American Activities Committee, stories of human
struggle and perseverance arise from each of these narratives.
The musical tells the story of Nellie Bly, America's first female
journalist. In a profession dominated by men, in the
late-19thncentury, Nellie was determined not only to join the
profession but to become one of its brightest lights. To get
herself noticed, Nellie undertook a series of daring and outrageous
stunts, including committing herself to New York's infamous insane
asylum on Blackwell's Island. The subsequent articles and book she
wrote about her experiences forced the authorities to radically
reform the asylum system. In 1889 Nellie undertook her most famous
and seemingly impossible stunt - a solo journey around the world to
try to beat the eighty days taken in Jules Verne's famous novel.
After many exotic adventures she returned triumphant to New York in
just seventy-two days. By turns comic and tragic this is the story
of a woman who opened a door previously closed to all women: the
story of a brave pioneer who sacrificed love and happiness to
achieve her ambition.
The lives and loves of Christabel, Sylvia and Adela Pankhurst, the
three daughters of Emmeline Pankhurst, the figurehead of Britain's
radical Suffragette movement. The Pankhursts were a family divided,
a family often at war. Christabel dedicated her life to the cause
and let nothing, not even the pursuit of love and happiness, stand
in the way of women's emancipation. By 1918 when the battle for
women's suffrage had finally been won, Sylvia was estranged from
the Suffragettes and from her own mother and Christabel, and Adela,
the youngest, had been banished by Christabel to Australia. The
musical tells the stories of these three remarkable sisters set
against the First World War and other great events of the time. The
story culminates with the victory of the Suffragettes and the
disintegration of the Pankhurst family.
Environmental Economics and Policy is a best-selling text for
environmental economics courses. Offering a policy-oriented
approach, it introduces economic theory, empirical fieldwork, and
case studies that show how underlying economic principles provided
the foundation for environmental policies. Key features include:
Introductions to the theory and method of environmental economics,
including externalities, benefit-cost analysis, valuation methods,
and ecosystem goods and services. Extensive coverage of the major
issues including climate change mitigation and adaptation, air and
water pollution, and environmental justice. Boxed "Examples" and
"Debates" throughout the text, which highlight global examples and
major talking points. This text will be of use to undergraduate
students of economics. Students will leave the course with a global
perspective of how environmental economics has played and can
continue to play a role in promoting fair and efficient
environmental management. The text is fully supported with
end-of-chapter summaries, discussion questions, and self-test
exercises in the book. Additional online resources include
references, as well as PowerPoint slides for each chapter.
Environmental Economics and Policy is a best-selling text for
environmental economics courses. Offering a policy-oriented
approach, it introduces economic theory, empirical fieldwork, and
case studies that show how underlying economic principles provided
the foundation for environmental policies. Key features include:
Introductions to the theory and method of environmental economics,
including externalities, benefit-cost analysis, valuation methods,
and ecosystem goods and services. Extensive coverage of the major
issues including climate change mitigation and adaptation, air and
water pollution, and environmental justice. Boxed "Examples" and
"Debates" throughout the text, which highlight global examples and
major talking points. This text will be of use to undergraduate
students of economics. Students will leave the course with a global
perspective of how environmental economics has played and can
continue to play a role in promoting fair and efficient
environmental management. The text is fully supported with
end-of-chapter summaries, discussion questions, and self-test
exercises in the book. Additional online resources include
references, as well as PowerPoint slides for each chapter.
Because of the high fatality rate of untreated pneumococcal
pneumonia, both the disease and its principal cause, the
pneumococcus, were objects of intense scrutiny by physicians and
bacteriologists during the last two decades of the nineteenth
century and the first half of the twentieth. As a result,
scientists learned much of the fundamental importance to
microbiology, immunology, and genetics while developing the
pneumococcal vaccine.
Practical and easy to use, this human services text provides
important guidelines for working within agencies. The authors
address important topics germane to management and administration,
including evidence-based and empirically based practice, as well as
challenges of management, environments of human service agencies,
program design, organizational theory and design, human resources,
supervisory relationships, finances, information systems, program
evaluation, organizational change, leadership, and achieving and
maintaining organizational excellence. To help you view issues in
action, the authors have included a case example in each chapter,
along with reflection questions to help you reflect on how you
would handle the scenario.
The world responded with horror to ISIS's campaign of destruction
of cultural heritage across the Middle East, including with calls
for an international response to prevent such damage. At the same
time, newspapers and screens were filled with images of human
destruction, devastated cities, and thousands of refugees fleeing
the conflict. This juxtaposition caused a backlash against those
voicing their concerns about the destruction of ancient ruins,
popularly framed as dispute about 'stone versus lives'. In the face
of so much human suffering, it can seem inappropriate to worry
about anything but the urgent, basic needs of people. Heritage and
War addresses this issue within the context of a wider debate,
amidst a range of moral questions. Eleven original essays
investigate a variety of philosophical and moral questions arising
from the phenomenon of heritage destruction in war, such how we
ought to respond to heritage that is damaged in war, the nature of
the harm caused by such damage, and the morally appropriate
treatment of sites of war and conflict that have themselves become
heritage sites. Such issues are philosophically rich, and yet they
have been largely neglected by academic philosophers. This book
makes a substantial contribution to developing this new
philosophical territory and identifying the role that philosophers
have to play in developing our understanding of and responses to
these important issues.
Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly
humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex
interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual
limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous
world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in
personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs,
language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes,
"Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the
realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye
out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for
us."
Contributing Authors Include T. N. Campbell, Frank H. H. Roberts,
Jr., Claudio Sanchez-Albornoz, And Many Others.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ The Mineral Industry Of Utah; Issue 12 Of Bulletin Of The Utah
Engineering Experiment Station Robert Strong Lewis, Thomas M.
Varley, Hyrum Schneider University of Utah, State school of mines,
in co-operation with the United States Bureau of mines, 1919
Technology & Engineering; Mining; Mines and mineral resources;
Technology & Engineering / Mining
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R389
R360
Discovery Miles 3 600
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R389
R360
Discovery Miles 3 600
|